The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Uncultivated minds are not full of wild flowers, like uncultivated fields. Villainous weeds grow in them and they are the haunt of toads.